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Standing Authentically With Our Black Community
You will find this message much belated. In the last three weeks, we have seen our City's people rise up and show so much pride, passion, beauty, and resilience. We are in awe of the many organizations and community leaders who have spoken out resolutely against the incessant and systemically baked-in racism that our Black community endures daily. WOBO will not stay silent. We are committed to root out racism with whatever might we have.
WOBO is quietly facing this moment of crisis through
- Mobilizing volunteers to support safe Slow Streets.
- Reaching out to neighbors to listen to how they are faring and learning about their needs.
- Working in tandem with city and community partners to problem solve together.
We've pored over academic publications, reviewed webinars, stalked many social media accounts, and listened in on community dialogues for ideas on how we can be proactive and responsive to our inherently exclusionary systems in all things mobility. Our quiet pause is also affording us some time to reflect on our role, individually and organizationally, in historically maintaining status quo and how we need evolve to be anti-racist allies.
WOBO advocates for improving the conditions of our most vulnerable users of our public spaces. It is imperative that we double-down on our intentional, authentic, and strategic role in magnifying the voices our Black communities if we are to "get it right."
The WOBO Board will not renege on our privilege to bring forward real and enduring change. If you are compelled to help us be the most effective agent of change in the mobility space, we welcome you to explore a meaningful role in this movement. Join us as a Board member, a volunteer, a thought partner, or as a donor.
You are also welcomed to join future discussions to advance community needs when planning for re-imagining the use of public space in a COVID reality. Send us a note to plug in to any of these opportunities.
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